Wake-Up!

Sales Tax for E-tailers?

Agreed Jay Dee!

-and to think "research" is their title...

Sales Tax for E-tailers?

Funny....

eBay is killing the seller with it's outrageous fees and now the government is going to kill eBay (along with other marketplaces) with it's outrageous fees. These two monstrosities don't get the big picture - not at all.

eBay believes raising fees beyond reason, is going to make them richer, quicker. Turn the seller into third world slaves - sell quantity at low prices, give eBay the majority of your profits and you'll do fine, right? *puke*

Enter Uncle Sam...The government believes taxing sellers (big and small) will make all the states rich, too. The end result (of course) is the consumer will incur these additional fees.

Many people shop online simply because of this tax-free incentive (especially on bigger ticket items). Unfortunately their greedy plans will back-fire. Countless numbers of potential online shoppers will simply stop buying (at least online).

Why would anyone shop online and pay the taxes too when they can easily buy their goods cheaper at their local Walmart - and we all know eBay has burdened sellers with sky-rocketing Final Value Fees and totalitarianism policies and put countless people out of business by stacking the cards against them.

The cost of shopping eBay already exceeds the cost of shopping at WalMart - now add tax to the equation! eBay will die quicker than it already is.

Look at the huge loss the US Post Office is taking - 2.3 billion dollars last year and they are still crashing. Their answer is to continually raise rates - again and again and again, yet the their bottom line is still suffering (they'll be raising rates again this May by the way).

Sometimes raising fees may not be the way to go. UPS is usually cheaper than using USPS and they include insurance! Who do you think is picking up the Post Office's business? *Hint... The one who offers more and costs less, of course!

They just don't get it, do they? These gluttonous hogs are going to put themselves right out of business along with millions of Americans. eBay can TARP, and us common folk...well.... we'll get another get a stimulus package for $12 dollars more a month.

jmo

Drop in E-Commerce Customer Satisfaction Ends Three-Year Climb

As long as greedy eBay charges the most outrageous fees on the planet (even WalMart can beat them), ecommerce will continue to fail.

Sellers cannot compete when they have to elevate prices so high, buyers simply walk away. People have become wiser. They let their fingers and keyboards do the shopping and find the best prices possible.

Only a fool would waste money at eBay when WalMart and other outside sites are cheaper. And since they appear to phasing out the auction format in favor of the "Buy it Now" and diamond powersellers (a.k.a over-seas garbage), there's really no reason to step foot into the crumbling eBay palace.

eBay is a has-been. Amazon kicked the sand in their face again this holiday season and yet the current management continues on this destructive path. They have alientated long time veteran sellers, cheated and BS'ed their way into forcing a PayPal payment only scheme and a failed search engine, ironically named "Best Match" which when used, allows potential buyers to see only what eBay wants them to see.

Not to mention advertisements as far as the eye can see, that does absolutely nothing but bog computers down and diverts potential shoppers to "click here" and leave the eBay site to make their purchases elsewhere - and they wonder where the traffic is going? Is the Pay Per Click worth it?

Even over-bloated pigs have to stop gobbling some time, don't they? I wonder if eBay is the exception? Open your eyes and close your greedy mouth!

Free yourself! www.Bonanzle.com

JMO

U.S. E-Commerce Gaining Market Share as Growth Slows

Wait till Uncle Sam gets their fingers in the pockets of online sellers. Americans who have no choice but to try supplementing their near non-existent incomes, by working like slaves to make a few dollars for their kids and family by selling online.

By the time you get done paying Peter, Paul and Mary, you'd be better off moving to a third world country and get hooked up in one of their factories.

I wonder if you took that into account while uploading these "future" graphs?